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''pallid'' ▫ᴱᴺ｜Definition｜1st｜20260919121947-00-⌔

pallid - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Adjective

pallid (comparative pallider, superlative pallidest)

  • Appearing weak, pale, or wan.
    • ✤ Synonyms: ashen, pale, pasty, ghastly; see also Thesaurus: pallid
    • ✤ The patient left the hospital but was very pallid.
    • ✤ A Sephardic romance, composed before the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, fills the Lost Chord Music Store on the northwest corner of Spinoza Square and Sixth Avenue. The well-dressed man on the telephone, pallid for this tanned city, repeats the inquiry: “Cloud Atlas Sextet… Robert Frobisher… As a matter of fact I have heard of it, though I’ve never laid my sticky paws on an actual pressing.”1
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:pallid.

Etymology

From Latin pallidus. Doublet of pale.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈpælɪd/
  • Audio (US): 🔊
  • Rhymes: -ælɪd

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Footnotes

  1. 2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 119: ↩

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